So anyone know how this will be modeled? Does the gunner get a green lead comp moving cross like in offline mode? Or do you just place the center of the ring over the fighter and pull the trigger after entering the expected wingspan and speed of the target?
http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/b-29-remote-control-turret-system.html The turrets in our B17 and B24 models I think had the auto K3 and K4 lead adjustment gunsights. You used a foot peddel to keep the width of the 2 vertical bars the same as the fighters wingspan while tracking with the turret. 1000yds was max for a 30ft wingspan.
http://www.glennsmuseum.com/bombsights/bombsights.htmlhttp://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~josephkennedy/sperry_ball_turret.htm#The Gunner
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7903090@N06/3023917318/http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/military-aircraft-gun-sight-turret-wwii-bombsighthttp://www.lonesentry.com/blog/tag/turret-------------------------------------------------------------
It is claimed that tracer, if its illusion is controlled, has distinct advantages. It makes possible visual checking of harmonization of guns and sights, and indicates whether there is proper lead in deflection shooting. However, the student "must realize that he sees the light, not the bullet; and he must realize that light does not give the same effect of distance as a bullet. For example, a bullet half the size of another bullet is twice as far away. But a light half the size of another equal light, is not twice as far away; in fact, when it is twice as far away, it is only a quarter the size of the other."17
It should be emphasized that aerial gunnery was much more perplexing to the gunner than ground exercises. Flying, often at great heights and at great speed, and attempting under such conditions to hit a target of small size were far more difficult matters than shooting at a target from the ground or from a moving truck. Moving-base ranges provided a valuable type of experience for the early part of the gunnery course but, of course, did not provide the necessary aerial exercises. In 1943 the Flying Training Command, encouraged by reports from the African theater which indicated considerable success in high deflection shooting through a course in air-to-ground shadow firing, requested the Western Flying Training Command to make a series of tests along that line. The tests which, as pointed out, proved unsuccessful as far as tracer air-to-air firing was concerned were encouraging as regards air-to-ground firing. Ground strafing missions against fixed
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